Although until recently it was believed that the Black Death stayed away from the areas of Poland and the Bohemia, there is no grain of truth in this story.

Poland and Bohemia were not isolated places, so both insects and travelers moved through these areas just as they did in other regions. This misunderstanding may have been caused by the lack of written sources from this time. Since the plague reached Germany between 1348 and 1350, infections in the Polish and Czech areas surely began a few weeks later.